Shoes and water bottles rained on Thai Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat on Wednesday as he visited the Information Ministry. The angry throwers were about 200 government employees who were critical of Somchai for his perceived closeness to former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinwatra, sentenced on Tuesday for two years because of violation of the country's corruption law. Thaksin is Somchai's brother-in-law.

Shoes and water bottles rained on Thai Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat on Wednesday as he visited the Information Ministry. The angry throwers were about 200 government employees who were critical of Somchai for his perceived closeness to former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinwatra, sentenced on Tuesday for two years because of violation of the country's corruption law. Thaksin is Somchai's brother-in-law.

A group of Japanese adventurers from the "Yeti Project Japan," claim to have photographed the footprints of the legendary giant ape-man Yeti after spending 42 days in the Himalayan peaks. Team leader Kuniaki Yahihara, from Maebashi, Japan said the photographs have been sent to scientists in Kyoto University for study.

A 27-year-old Oregon man has a search and rescue team to thank, as it located him five days after he set off climbing southern Washington's Mount Adams. Derek Mamoyac of Philomath, Ore. was found 6,000 feet up on the mountain reportedly surviving the ordeal by eating centipedes and drinking water from creeks.

A Central Florida woman who was carjacked at gunpoint is still getting over the experience that included the gunman dangling her 10-month-old daughter upside down by her feet outside the vehicle window. The carjacking happened Friday shortly before noon when a gunman ambushed Alyssa Gould in her SUV at an intersection. The carjacker opened the driver's side door and put a gun in her face, then unbuckled her baby and dangled the infant by her feet.